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It’s no exaggeration to say that my recent trip to South Korea and Hong Kong was life-changing. I have, in just one short week, moved from being distantly and intellectually aware of our global great shift eastward, to being whole-heartedly excited about the changes coming our way. Here’s a slick, bold, confident Indonesian movie, looking [...]

Another frakkin’ brilliant teaser vid for the Alien prequel Prometheus – Michael Fassbender as an empathetic robot. Eek.

I know. Matt Damon sunk low in a family tear-jearker about a widower who – guess what? – buys a run-down zoo. On the whole it’s completely dreadful – Elle Fanning plays home-schooled like she’s a a lobotomized moron, and Scarlett Johansson grins her way through the reflective bits with the glee of a complete [...]

Oh, I’ll definitely, definitely, definitely see this – it’s right up my geeky street. (Truth: I’ve been known to keep an eye on alleged thylacine sightings already – hat tip: try the mainland.) And Tasmania on film looks freakin’ fantastic again.

I came across another black-and-white European movie this weekend, this one shot in Germany, and an altogether less charming affair. Called “The White Ribbon“, it was the German Best Foreign Language nominee in 2009 and the winner of the Palm d’Or in Cannes. I’d never heard of it before, and it’s a slow, strange watching [...]

The Artist is a fairly ordinary film about the downfall and partial rehabilitation of a vain and prideful man at the time that silent movies morph into talkies in glamorous Hollywood. Amazingly enough, this dull and pretty tawdry piece of theater is transformed into an event movie, entirely because it’s filmed in black and white, [...]

I’ll say this nicely. There’s a guy in my gym who’s suffering from some sort of elephantiasis. Seriously. He’s got this wee, completely normal-sized head that’s carrying no extra flab around his chin or cheeks, but his body is lumbering and massive and each of his legs are the size of my entire torso. As [...]

From the creator of Paranormal Activity, with a bigger budget and a Serbian production location.

As each trailer emerges, it just looks better and better and better.

Depp and Bonham Carter and Tim Burton. Meh.